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The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) presents the fifth production of its 2008-09 Season: Samuel Beckett?s iconic masterpiece Endgame, directed by Marcus Stern, at the A.R.T.?s Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge. The production begins performances on Saturday, February 14 and runs through Sunday, March 15; it will be available for press viewing from Wednesday, February 18 at 7:30pm.

The Virginia Arts Festival and SevenVenues will present a tribute to jazz icon William Count Basie at the historic Attucks Theatre in Norfolk on February 20, 2009, featuring the music of Grammy-winning saxophonist, arranger, composer and band leader, Frank Foster.

In its 13th Season, the Virginia Arts Festival will present the world?s great performers to audiences throughout Hampton Roads, in six whirlwind weeks that will bring over 50 performances to more than two dozen venues in ten cities across the region. Performances include the best of Broadway, breathtaking ballet, electrifying modern dance, colorful performance traditions from around the world?and great music for every taste, from the world?s most acclaimed classical artists to top performers of pop, country, bluegrass, and jazz. Showstoppers Liza Minnelli and Patti LuPone, two of the most extraordinary voices in American theater, bookend the 2009 Festival.

The following is the 2009 show schedule for Broadway Series South. Broadway Series South is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and has been a proud member of The Broadway League since 2004.The box office is located at: Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 East South Street, Raleigh, NC 27601.

Alliance Repertory Theatre Company presents Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. The experienced cast consists of husband and wife team John and Linda Correll of Winfield Park, Jen Hanselman of New Brunswick, and Joy Salerno of East Brunswick. Company Manager Douglas Brautigam of East Brunswick directs.

The Cardinal Group (D.H. Johnson & Richard Pepenella) presents 'Avow' by Bill C. Davis, Off Broadway at the 45th Street Theatre, 354 West 45 Street. Previews begin this Thursday, February 19, 2009 and the opening is Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00pm for the limited Off Broadway engagement. The play takes a timely and poignant look at contemporary religion's role in shaping social issues, especially with Proposition 8. The cast for this warm, insightful and balanced meditation about who we are in relationship to the vows we make to the people and institutions in our lives includes Joy Franz, Elizabeth Bove, Jaron Farnham, Christopher Graham, Kate Middleton, Timothy Sekk and Jeremiah Wiggins. It is directed by Jerry Less and the set design is by Stephanie Tucci, costumes by Emily Lippolis, lighting design by Chris Weston. The production is supervised by Mr. Davis.

New La Boite Artistic Director David Berthold today announced an initiative aimed at significantly reducing ticket prices. At midday on Monday of the first week of every La Boite show this year, for one hour only, and only online, ALL remaining tickets for the first week will go on sale for just $20. No catches. No limits.

'A Change Is Coming' A National Gospel Stage Play took home the top honor of the evening at the 2008 Velocity Magazine Awards on November 15, 2008 for 'Best Film/Stage Play'.

Hot off the heels of shows in Hollywood and Vancouver, 'I am a Man, Goddamnit!' debuts in NYC at The Triad Theater (178 West 72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus) on Thursday, February 19th at 9:00pm.

Although Mardi Gras and New York are not synonymous that is no reason not to celebrate the joyous event. Join one of New Orleans' beloved children as Blanche DuBois offers a little taste of the New Orleans every night (Thursday ? Sunday) in her show Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire now playing at the SoHo Playhouse. Celebrate with beads, Mardi Gras King Cake (the cakes with the little plastic baby Jesus inside) a nice sip of the potent 'Hurricane' at the SoHo Playhouse's Huron Club before and after the show. Mardis Gras is February 24 and Blanche will kick-off the festivities the weekend before (2/19-2/23)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of the most fantasmagorical Broadway musical in the history of everything, is searching for six children in the Raleigh area to make their stage debut with Chittyat Memorial Auditorium when she arrives on March 31 for a 9-performance engagement through April 5!

We're Not In Kansas Anymore... The Wizard of Oz Travels over the rainbow to Raleigh! Tickets are on sale now! One of the greatest family musical of all time, The Wizard of Oz, is touching down in Raleigh as NETworks Presentations brings this national treasure to the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts May 5 through 10.

Kidz Theater is dedicated to helping young performers to reach their professional performing arts goals by providing free performance opportunities in Manhattan. Their performers have Broadway, Off-Broadway, Film and other professional credits!

L.A. Theatre Works, America's premier radio theater company, is back on the road, bringing two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure to performing arts centers and theatres across the country. War of the Worlds and The Lost World, which played last fall to great audience and critical acclaim, heads out on a seven-month national tour February 27 ? May 2, with a stop in Omaha, for one performance at the Holland Performing Arts Center?s Kiewit Concert Hall on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. John de Lancie ('Q' on Star Trek: The Next Generation) directs the double bill.

Avenue Q ? the three-time Tony Award? winning smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, is coming to Omaha?s Orpheum Theater. Avenue Q, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent award-winning book and score, will be presented by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America - Omaha, Wednesday, March 25 through Sunday, March 29, 2009. Tickets go on sale to the public Thursday, February 12.

Rain covers the Fab Four from their very first Ed Sullivan Show appearance through the Abbey Road album, through the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. Rain is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups.

Omaha Performing Arts will host comedian and television star Bill Cosby to Slosburg Hall at the Orpheum Theater for two performances on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Bill Cosby is, by any standards, one of the most influential stars in America today. Whether it be through concert appearances or recordings, television or films, commercials or education, Bill Cosby has the ability to touch people's lives. His humor often centers on the basic cornerstones of our existence, seeking to provide an insight into our roles as parents, children, family members, and men and women. Without resorting to gimmickry or lowbrow humor, Bill Cosby's comedy has a point of reference and respect for the trappings and traditions of the great American humorists such as Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx.

12 Community Participants and three understudies were selected from more than 35 people who auditioned Monday to take part in a one-of-a-kind extended residency project called The Diavolo Project: Nebraska. This creative and collaborative project between the Diavolo Company, Omaha Performing Arts and the Lied Center for Performing Arts engages Nebraska-based performing artists, educators and communities with Diavolo in an exploration of their unique approach to the dynamic art of movement. The auditions, which were open to any Nebraskan with extensive experience and interest in movement, drew dancers, gymnasts, acrobats, athletes and physical theater artists from across the state.

Tickets to Wicked, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (?My So Called Life,? ?Once And Again? and ?thirtysomething?), based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, will go on sale Friday, March 6, beginning at 7:00 a.m. Tickets will be exclusively available and must be purchased in person at the Ticket Omaha Box Office inside the Holland Performing Arts Center, 13th and Douglas streets, Omaha, Neb. Beginning at 10:00 a.m., remaining tickets will not only be available at the Ticket Omaha Box Office, but will also be available online at TicketOmaha.org or by calling 402-345-0606. There is an eight-ticket limit per person. For group sales, call 402-661-8516, or toll-free 866-434-8587, and ask for Group Sales.

The 200-voice National Christian Choir (NCC) will perform at 6 p.m. March 8 in Baker Memorial Chapel on campus. Admission is free, but tickets must be reserved in advance. Directed by C. Harry Causey of Sykesville, Md., the choir comprised of members of more than 100 churches will perform Beautiful Savior,The Lord is My Strength and My Song, and We Declare Your Majesty.